20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap: Cross-Platform Mobile Development for Android and iPhone

20 Recipes for Programming PhoneGap: Cross-Platform Mobile Development for Android and iPhone, 9781449319540 (1449319548), O'Reilly, 2012

PhoneGap is a library that allows developers to interface directly with a mobile device through the use of its JavaScript libraries. With the multitude of mobile platforms it is very difficult and expensive to create multiple applications in Java, Objective-C, or other native languages. Through the PhoneGap library, most web developers can convert their existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into mobile phone applications with very little effort. In this book, I will explore many common features of mobile development and how they are accomplished with PhoneGap. This will include GPS location, maps, media, accelerometers, and much more.

Gain hands-on experience with the amazing PhoneGap library, using the practical recipes in this handy guide. With these solutions, you can enable your mobile web apps to interact with device-specific features such as the accelerometer, GPS, camera, and address book. Learn how to use your knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build full mobile apps for iOS, Android, and several other platforms without rewriting apps in the native platform language. Each recipe includes sample code you can use in your project right away, as well as a discussion of why the solution works.

Add functionality that’s available only on a certain device or platform
Retrieve the device’s current GPS location and place a marker on a map
Create and save a new contact or edit an existing contact in the address book
Take pictures with the camera or select one of the user’s existing photos
Upload a file from the local device to an external server
Allow the device to record audio or video through your app
Enable your application to save files locally

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